COFFEE BREAK
8B — THE OBSERVER & BAKER CITY HERALD
TuESDAY, JunE 22, 2021
Landlord mother dragged into bitter breakup
hardly ever see him because he
works at night. I need the rent
money, and we have always gotten
along great. I say this is my house
and I should decide if he leaves.
What do you think? — In The
Middle in Florida
Dear In The Middle: You
need to explain to your daughter
that the reason her husband is
living with you is because you
need the income. Even if you
wanted, you might not be able to
kick him out right away because
of whatever eviction laws may
exist in your state. This is your
house, and the decision whether to
evict him should be yours. How-
ever, if you continue allowing him
to rent from you, it may cause a
Dear Abby: My daughter is
separated from her husband, who
rents a room from me. Recently,
without telling her, he dropped
her from his insurance. Now
she wants me to kick him out
and she’s mad at me because I
refuse to do it. She says it shows I
approve of his behavior. She tells
me that he’s no good, he used her
and he hit on her girlfriend. She’s
threatening that if I let him stay,
we won’t be close anymore.
He pays me on time, and I
breach with your daughter that
could be permanent.
Dear Abby: I often feel left
out. This past weekend on Face-
book I saw two co-workers and
a former co-worker went on
a weekend getaway. I wasn’t
invited. Should I retaliate, or must
I act like it doesn’t bother me?
This isn’t the first time friends
and co-workers have done things
like this. I’ll comment on their
post — “looks like fun” — but
never get invited. How should I
feel about this and what should I
do? — Overlooked in Minnesota
Dear Overlooked: What you
should “do” is recognize that your
co-workers are not obligated to
include you in anything outside
am concerned that if something
were to happen to me and I was
taken to a nearby hospital, they
wouldn’t know I have one on file
with my health care provider. Is
there a way to let first responders
know? Thank you for the con-
tinual service you provide. —
Last Request in California
Dear Last Request: Many
individuals accomplish this by
posting a notice near their bed,
on the refrigerator or in their cell-
phone contact list designated as
ICE (In Case of Emergency).
There are also cards that can be
carried in the wallet to alert the
EMTs about the patient’s wishes.
Your health care provider can tell
you how to get one.
of work. They may have mutual
interests that bring them together,
or chemistry that they don’t have
with you. Instead of fuming and
fantasizing about “retaliating”
(which would be uncalled for and
inappropriate), form relationships
outside this circle of co-workers
and friends, and do things on
weekends for yourself that are sat-
isfying. If you do, you will be less
dependent upon these individuals
and less disappointed if your rela-
tionships with them aren’t as close
as you wish they were.
Dear Abby: I have been
reading your column for many
years, but haven’t seen this ques-
tion before. I’m a senior citizen
with a do-not-resuscitate order. I
NEWS OF THE WEIRD
Aquarium to auction off chance to name 3 beluga whales
the new animals.”
The aquarium hopes
to raise $4 million at the
auction, which will also
include donated art, per-
haps a boat or vintage car
and some unique experi-
ences — such as educa-
tional dive trips with sci-
entists to places such as
the undersea Northeast
Canyons and Seamounts
Marine National Monu-
ment in the Atlantic Ocean,
Coan said.
It will cost the aquarium
about $5 million a year to
care for the belugas, he
said. That includes about
$250,000 a year to pay for
food and veterinary care for
each animal, as well as costs
associated with running the
habitat and research.
The foundation also
spent millions of dollars
last month transporting
the whales from their pre-
vious home at Marine-
land in Niagara Falls,
Ontario, using custom-made
stretchers and special tanks
inside a C-130 cargo plane,
Coan said.
By PAT EATON-ROBB
The Associated Press
MYSTIC, Connecticut
— A Connecticut aquarium
plans to auction off the
chance to name three of its
five recently arrived beluga
whales to raise money for
their care and to offset the
cost of transporting them
from Canada.
President and CEO Ste-
phen Coan said the Sea
Research Foundation has
teamed with the New York-
based auction house Guern-
sey’s to hold a fundraising
auction on Aug. 19 at the
Mystic Aquarium, which it
operates.
“The three whales will
get what we refer to as stage
names, and they would be
referred to by those names
going forward,” he said.
“We’ve named other ani-
mals in the past and people
get very excited about the
opportunity. It really makes
the animals part of the com-
munity and the community
feels they are part of the
experience of welcoming
Jason Decrow/The Associated Press
Three beluga whales swim together in an acclimation pool after arriving at Mystic Aquarium, Friday, May
14, 2021, in Mystic, Connecticut. The whales were among five imported to Mystic Aquarium from Canada
for research on the endangered mammals. The aquarium is announcing that it will be auctioning off the
names of three of the new belugas to raise money for their care.
ment comes the same day
the whales were fully inte-
grated into the main part
of the aquarium’s 750,000-
gallon beluga habitat with
its three existing whales —
Kela, Juno and Natasha.
Coan said all of the
whales are acclimating well
and in excellent health,
Mystic Aquarium,
which specializes in beluga
research, spent months
securing the needed
approvals from both nations
and overcoming challenges
from some animal rights
groups, which had opposed
the move.
The auction announce-
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though one did need to be
treated for a preexisting gas-
trointestinal issue.
Juno has been commu-
nicating with them for the
past five weeks through the
barrier that kept them sepa-
rated and has been very wel-
coming, Coan said. Natasha
seemed to be oblivious to
AROUND OREGON AND THE REGION
Astoria
Longview
54/65
Kennewick
52/78
St. Helens
57/84
62/88
Condon
66/93
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and mild
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warm
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very hot
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Eugene
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ALMANAC
NATION (for the 48 contiguous states)
High Sunday
Low Sunday
High: 124°
Low: 32°
Wettest: 4.67”
85°
49°
86°
62°
90°
48°
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Sunday
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0.86
2.35
5.39
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Trace
1.14
5.90
8.94
0.00
0.77
1.28
14.98
13.20
HAY INFORMATION WEDNESDAY
20%
WNW at 7 to 14 mph
9.0
0.32
RESERVOIR STORAGE (through midnight Monday)
Phillips Reservoir
Unity Reservoir
Owyhee Reservoir
McKay Reservoir
Wallowa Lake
Thief Valley Reservoir
OREGON
Medford
Meacham
High: 100°
Low: 43°
Wettest: none
WEATHER HISTORY
AGRICULTURAL INFO.
Lowest relative humidity
Afternoon wind
Hours of sunshine
Evapotranspiration
Death Valley, Calif.
Yellowstone N.P., Wyo.
Panama City, Fla.
16% of capacity
76% of capacity
43% of capacity
83% of capacity
42% of capacity
79% of capacity
One of the costliest fl oods in U.S. history
struck New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland
and Virginia on June 22, 1972. It caused
$2.1 billion damage and killed 122 people.
SUN & MOON
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Moonrise
Moonset
TUE.
WED.
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8:44 p.m.
6:45 p.m.
3:13 a.m.
5:05 a.m.
8:44 p.m.
8:06 p.m.
3:53 a.m.
MOON PHASES
STREAM FLOWS (through midnight Sunday)
Grande Ronde at Troy
2830 cfs
Thief Valley Reservoir near North Powder
98 cfs
Burnt River near Unity
90 cfs
Umatilla River near Gibbon
63 cfs
Minam River at Minam
1030 cfs
Powder River near Richland
13 cfs
Full
Jun 24
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Jul 1
New
Jul 9
First
Jul 17
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Beaver Marsh
Powers
55/77
57/88
Silver Lake
Jordan Valley
55/87
Paisley
56/87
52/83
Frenchglen
55/86
63/93
Klamath Falls
49/86
McDermitt
55/85
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THU.
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Lakeview
49/86
REGIONAL CITIES
City
Astoria
Bend
Boise
Brookings
Burns
Coos Bay
Corvallis
Council
Elgin
Eugene
Hermiston
Hood River
Imnaha
John Day
Joseph
Kennewick
Klamath Falls
Lakeview
Grand View
Arock
58/88
56/89
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WED.
Diamond
54/85
Fields
Medford
Brookings
Boise
66/94
59/95
52/65
57/93
50/88
Chiloquin
Grants Pass
Juntura
52/89
51/85
48/83
Roseburg
Ontario
67/97
Burns
Brothers
58/84
Coos Bay
Huntington
53/86
58/90
Oakridge
61/93
71/95
Seneca
Bend
Elkton
Council
53/92
John Day
57/89
Florence
SUNDAY EXTREMES
TEMPERATURES Baker City La Grande Elgin
Sisters
54/66
Comfort Index takes into account how the weather will feel based on a combination of factors. A rating of 10 feels
very comfortable while a rating of 0 feels very uncomfortable.
58/92
Baker City
Redmond
52/61
53/63
Halfway
Granite
53/82
Newport
52/81
87 58
58/95
58/84
57/86
Corvallis
Enterprise
58/89
61/92
Monument
63/95
Idanha
Salem
TONIGHT
6
Elgin
57/91
La Grande
60/88
Maupin
Comfort Index™
68/96
Pendleton
The Dalles
Portland
Newberg
55/86
Lewiston
66/99
Hood River
66/96
53/68
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Walla Walla
70/100
Vancouver
55/83
TIllamook
Baker City
the new arrivals and was a
bit startled by the integra-
tion and Kelo seemed “a
little bit aggrieved at first”
to be sharing her space.
“They are getting to
know each other now, so it’s
quite a sight,” he said.
The new arrivals will
soon begin training through
positive reinforcement — a
fish, a tongue rub or a fun
toy to play with — to vol-
untarily assist in research.
They will be used as a base-
line to compare against
wild belugas in studying
things like their health and
immune systems.
Coan said there are
guidelines on what the
aquarium will allow the
whales to be named. Corpo-
rate or offensive names, for
example, are off limits.
The other two whales
will get their names from
the general public through
contests the aquarium plans
to run starting in August,
including one that will be
part of an educational pro-
gram for schoolchildren in
the state, Coan said.
City
Lewiston
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Meacham
Medford
Newport
Olympia
Ontario
Pasco
Pendleton
Portland
Powers
Redmond
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The Dalles
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PHILLIPS LAKE
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BROWNLEE RES.
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62
EAGLE CAP WILD.
EMIGRANT ST. PARK
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WALLOWA LAKE
MCKAY RESERVOIR
Partly sunny; warm
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61
94
64
THIEF VALLEY RES.
RED BRIDGE ST. PARK
Very warm
Mostly sunny
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